Hasenprosa

"If that's all there is, I'm out of here!" one shouts, making her way out in her mile-high boots and travel socks. In the back seat: a rabbit. It’s a journey through time, eras, and out into the pitch-black universe. In a line flyer through the sky and memory: of two grandmothers, one bright, one dark, one whole, one wounded. A grandfather, his rough hands. A brother and his tree. Of racing dreams, crooked fairy tales, and a Purple Rain. Maren Kames' rabbit prose is quicksilver and heartfelt. It is full of "Punk, Punk, Punk" and tenderness. Delicately spun narratives stand alongside precise perceptions of the world. We hear Glenn Gould and Billie Eilish, see Lionel Messi dribbling through the universe, and rappel down from fixed stars with the rabbit. A book like a summer of childhood, extravagant, "wide open," and radiantly beautiful.